"It's easy to dispense with the first claim Obama made, that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries... Obama is wrong to say that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. Clearly it does happen elsewhere, and not in trivial numbers. Seven of the countries saw double-digit numbers of people killed in mass shootings during that period."
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Keely Herring and Louis Jacobson, "Is Barack Obama correct that mass killings don't happen in other countries?" (22 June 2015), Politifact.
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